WRECKED ON THE GOODWINS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 75, 1 April 1892, Page 4

WRECKED ON THE GOODWINS.

Ebabmbs Dabwin, grandfather of tho famous Charles Lurwiu, tho naturalist, inscribed upon his soul tho Biguificant words, " Omnia ex conchis" — all things arise fi ora oysters. But from what do oysters arise P What in the origin of matter P Ah ! nobody kuowß. Yot one thing is getting plainer every day. Lot this mau'a story bliow.

He goes cm to Buy : On tbo 17fch of December, 1872, whilst aoting as ships' carpenter on board tho Bteainship Sorrento, I waa wrecked on tho Goodwin Sands. Tho shock to my system waa so great as to produce au eH'ecfc I never felfc bof'ore. I foil into a low, weak state, and was Boized with giddiness and a sinking, fainting feeling. I had a bad taste in tho mouth, weight at tho chest, and gieat pain after outing, and xny face would burn like fko. 1 had difficulty in breathing and palpitation, and often a a pain seemed to run from the heart through to my shoulder. I hud a kind of rumbling all over mo, and a choking Hon3ation at tho throat, with a rudh of blocd to tho head.

" I elopt vory badly, and after a timo I got so nervous and weak I was afraid to go about, and would sit iv a chair quite powerless. J. saw a doctor, who treated mo for a time, and then Bont me to a hospital in Itattlobono Place, London, whoro I was undor treatment for thrco months, but got no hotter. I then put my so. f undor a doctor, who said I wW Buffering from nervous dobilitios. Ho patched mo up for a littlo whilo, but said to my wife, " Your husband is in » critical condition, and may dio at any timo.'

" However, I got to work for a short time, and then was as bad as ever, I lingered on iv this way for years — now a little bettor, now worse, but nevor well.

"About 1880, whilst working at Messrs Westwood and iiailoy'e, Millwall, a inato who saw my suffering told mo ot a modi, ciuo called Mother yoigol'a Curative Syrup, and ho brought mo a bottle. After taking tho first bottle I found my food agreed with mo, and I began to improve. All m.TYOUB fooling gradually loft mo, and by persevering with tho medicine I way soon cured. Ji'rom that timo to this 1 have beon a Btroug man, and dono harder work thuu over in my lifo beforo. i havo since kept Mother Hoigei'a Jiyrup iv the houso, and my wife, who was a great Buflorer from rheumatism and dropsy, has found moro roliof from it than anything else. If any of my family over ail anything, a fow doaos soon Bet them right,"

'i'ho statement Irom which tho forego, ing isuu extract was mado by Mr William Hill, ehip'B carpenter, 108, Anne's Hoad, London, XO.

Now, what is tho thing which wo said is getting plainer every day f Why this; that almost an infinite uumbor ot diiforent results ariso from a einglo cauae. Like the majority of peoplo iv all ranks of iifo, Mr. Jiill hud in hia digestive organs tho seeds — or what women, whan thoy buy dresa goods, call "the makings" —ol dyspopsu. Up to t;lio winter of 1872 it may nob havo troubled him much, but tho excitement and oxposuro o.t tho ehipwieok was more than the aystem could bear. Wo must remember, too, that all. shooka to tho mind or body, or to both, act dheetly on tbo stomach. Who can oat when under tho innuonoo of a groat worry or a groat Borrow? And if fchia worry or sorrow continues long, it always upsots tho digestion, pormauoutly impairs or destroys tho appetite, and thus brings on an apparently incurable dpspopsiu and nervous debility. Why, gracious goodness 1 thero aro millions of women, and lota of men, -crawling about uuder this thing in England every day in tho your. And it is to thorn wo aro talking. They aro half dead, and we vuut them to conio to lite, and got somo good out of their existence. Whatever tho ailmout iB called, you may boßiuo indigestion and dyspepsia in at tho bottom of it, as in Mr Jiiil's caso, and what cured him will euro you.